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Andrew J. Hillman
Andrew Jonathan Hillman is a Dallas senior paralegal and healthcare compliance expert witness. He also advises healthcare businesses on operations.
Andrew Hillman no longer owns or operates any healthcare facility, medical practice, or laboratory. He bills no insurer or payer. His only ongoing business activity is investing as a family office through Hillman Ventures. He advises businesses independently and is retained as an expert witness through counsel. He also works as a senior paralegal at a boutique law firm, on investigations and on personal injury and healthcare litigation support, under the supervision of its licensed attorneys. He is not an attorney and does not provide legal advice.
How Andrew Hillman advises businesses.
Advisory work for companies building, buying, or operating healthcare businesses. Each service draws on three decades of having formed, licensed, and run these operations directly. Advisory only. Andrew Hillman does not own, operate, or hold a clinical or licensure interest in any client business, and bills no insurer or payer.
Regulatory advising
Guidance on healthcare and FDA regulatory pathways, licensure, and compliance structures, including the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, HIPAA, CLIA, and state licensure as they arise in operations and transactions.
Attorney selection
Help identifying and vetting specialized healthcare, regulatory, and transactional counsel matched to a specific matter, and coordinating their work. Andrew Hillman is not a licensed attorney and does not provide legal advice.
Due diligence
Operational and regulatory diligence on healthcare acquisitions, partnerships, and investments, including licensure, billing, and compliance exposure.
Site selection
Evaluation of locations for surgical, laboratory, pharmacy, and clinical operations against regulatory, licensure, market, and operational criteria.
Facility design
Advisory on layout, workflow, and the physical and compliance requirements of licensed surgical, laboratory, and pharmacy facilities.
Equipment negotiation
Support sourcing clinical and laboratory equipment and negotiating purchase, lease, and service terms.
The compliance and litigation-support practice.
Andrew Hillman's primary focus, drawn from healthcare operations and compliance engagements and from expert-witness and senior-paralegal work in federal matters nationwide, conducted through retaining counsel. He is not a licensed attorney and provides operator and compliance support, not legal opinion.
Regulatory governance
Written policies and SOPs, board reporting, and internal controls.
Vendor and contract risk
Vendor audits, service level agreement reviews, and a log of third-party risk.
Data privacy and security
State privacy laws including CCPA and CPRA, HIPAA, data-privacy workflows, and vendor data-use audits.
Internal audit and investigations
Sorting what matters first, records retention rules, and internal compliance review, under counsel.
Litigation and defense support
White-collar and regulatory defense support, evidence review, and subpoena response, under retaining counsel.
Consulting expert or testifying expert.
Separate from the advisory practice, Andrew Hillman is retained as an expert witness in either capacity. The role is fixed in writing at the outset, and the scope of any opinion is stated in the engagement agreement. He is not a licensed attorney. He offers operator testimony on healthcare business practice, drawn from having built and run these operations, not legal opinion.
Pre-filing case evaluation
Early assessment of the healthcare operations and compliance issues in a matter, including whether an operator opinion is available on the facts.
Discovery and document analysis
Review and analysis of operating records, contracts, policies, ownership documents, and billing records. Assistance framing document requests and deposition topics.
Expert report preparation
Preparation of a written report stating the opinions offered, the facts and data considered, and the basis for each opinion.
Deposition and trial testimony
Deposition testimony and testimony at hearing or trial, within the scope disclosed in the report.
The operating record behind the opinions.
Andrew Jonathan Hillman is a Dallas healthcare operator with three decades co-founding and running FDA-regulated surgical hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, clinical laboratories, and pharmacy businesses. Since 2020 he has worked as an expert witness on healthcare operations, hospital business practice, and federal regulatory matters, engaged through retaining counsel.
His opinions rest on having built, licensed, staffed, and run these businesses. Where the operating record is incomplete on a given question, he states the limit rather than filling it with inference.
Engagement history and credentials can be cross-checked on his LinkedIn profile.
Outside his engagements, Andrew Hillman values time with his family, his advisory work, and his senior paralegal work with a boutique law firm, under the supervision of its licensed attorneys.
Ownership and licensure
- Past owner and operator of a Class A retail pharmacy, a Class G administrative pharmacy, and a wholesale pharmacy distributor.
- Past owner and operator of ambulatory surgical centers, acute care hospitals, and a rehabilitation hospital.
- Past owner and operator of clinical and toxicology laboratories.
- Past owner and operator of FDA-regulated medical device companies.
Companies and facilities in the record
A selection. The fuller CURRENT vs PAST list is on /ventures.
Each entity below is documented in a primary public source. The filings, clearances, and registry records are indexed on the credentials and verification page.
- Dynacq Healthcare, Inc. (NASDAQ: DYII), a public healthcare company taken private. SEC filings under CIK 890908 include a 2013 Form 10-K and a 2014 SC 14D-9.
- Victory Medical Center facilities, including Plano, Craig Ranch in McKinney (CMS NPI 1164867198), and South Cross in San Antonio. The Victory hospitals were acquired by Nobilis Health Corp. (SEC EDGAR CIK 1409916), reported contemporaneously by Becker's Hospital Review, Becker's ASC, and GlobeNewswire.
- Surgery Specialty Hospitals of America, Pasadena, Texas (CMS NPI 1891718789), the facility operated under Dynacq Healthcare.
- Bone Solutions, Inc., Southlake, Texas, an orthobiologics company with eight FDA 510(k) clearances, including K161568 and K192674.
- United Toxicology (CMS NPI 1063707743), a toxicology laboratory.
- Prestonwood Surgery Center (CMS NPI 1225225154) and Medical Edge Healthcare Group (CMS NPI 1063573541).
- The Apothecary Shop pharmacies, formerly Over the Counter, and Digimed, both taken private.
Featured white paper
- The Architecture of Compliance: Federal and State Healthcare Law for the Practicing Physician. 2026. White paper. The False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, HIPAA, EKRA, and qui tam whistleblower exposure, and the operational infrastructure that turns statutory knowledge into a defensible compliance record.
Authored and indexed publications
ORCID iD 0009-0001-5396-321X. Wikidata Q139969699. OpenAlex author record OpenAlex (A5139488776). ResearchGate Andrew-Hillman. DOI-registered papers are listed once, under Publications on this page.
- Author profile, Academia.edu. Additional papers, including one on the Targeted Osmotic Lysis platform.
These publications are listed to document authorship and subject-matter familiarity. Nothing in them, and nothing on this site, is a claim of FDA approval, safety, or efficacy for any product or therapy.
Current roles. Past companies on /ventures.
Current work is below. Past companies are not repeated on this page.
- CURRENT
- Principal, Hillman Ventures. A Dallas biotech family office.
- CURRENT
- Healthcare operations advisor and expert witness, retained through counsel. Not an attorney.
- PAST
- Past ownership and exited companies from the public record are listed on /ventures.
How the work is conducted.
- Current status. Andrew Hillman no longer owns or operates any healthcare facility, medical practice, or laboratory. He bills no insurer or payer. His only ongoing business activity is investing as a family office through Hillman Ventures. He advises businesses independently and is retained as an expert witness through counsel.
- Andrew Hillman provides impartial analysis based on documented evidence. He does not tailor an opinion to the retaining party.
- Compensation is not contingent on the outcome of any matter, and no fee is tied to a verdict, an award, or a settlement.
- Engagements are arranged through retaining counsel under a separate written agreement.
- Scope, current professional status, and any potential conflicts are disclosed before work begins.
- He is not a licensed attorney. He offers operator testimony on healthcare business practice, not legal opinion.
- Where the record does not support an opinion, he says so.
Inquire about an engagement.
Counsel inquiries only. A conflicts check is run before any substantive discussion of a matter.
Email is the fastest route. The link below opens a message pre-filled with the intake items listed here.
- Firm
- Firm name and the office handling the matter.
- Attorney contact
- Name, direct line, and email of retaining counsel.
- Jurisdiction
- Court, venue, and case number if filed.
- Case posture
- Pre-filing, discovery, expert designation, or trial.
- Parties
- All parties and affiliates, for the conflicts check.
- High-level issue
- The healthcare operations or compliance question at issue.
- Role sought
- Consulting expert or testifying expert.
- Key deadlines
- Designation deadline, report deadline, discovery cutoff, and trial date.
Direct email, contact@andrewjhillman.com.
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Latest Letter
Weekly operator notes on healthcare regulatory strategy, compliance, and enforcement. Educational, not legal advice.
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Publications
Andrew Jonathan Hillman's works are listed on ORCID 0009-0001-5396-321X and deposited on Zenodo with permanent DOIs.
- Wharton's Jelly MSC-Derived Exosomes in Spinal Disc Repair. Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20978822
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes from Wharton's Jelly: The Gold Standard for Safe, Compliant Regenerative Medicine. Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20974697
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Tissue Repair Across Multiple Body Systems: A Narrative Review. Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23574345
- The Biologics Paradigm: Wharton's Jelly Mesenchymal Exosomes as a Section 351(a) Drug vs. the Section 361 HCT/P pathway. Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21142612 (also on Issuu)
- Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Derived Exosomes and Extracellular Vesicles Across Therapeutic Indications: A Structured Review. Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21209815
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes from Wharton's Jelly Umbilical Cord: Regulatory Classification Under FDA CBER Section 351(a). Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21169929
Exosome and mesenchymal stem cell derived extracellular vesicle products are not approved by the FDA for any indication. The work referenced here describes published scientific literature. It does not describe an available treatment.
Expert witness page: Dallas Healthcare Compliance Expert Witness.
Profiles and identifiers
- Andrew Hillman, Dallas on LinkedInProfessional profile
ORCIDResearcher ID 0009-0001-5396-321X
WikidataEntity Q139969699
WikipediaEncyclopedia article- Google ScholarGoogle ScholarCitations and papers
- NCBI My BibliographyNCBI My BibliographyCitations and papers
- OSFOSFCitations and papers
- FIBRADISCFIBRADISCU.S. trademark application
Academia.eduPapers and monographs
ZenodoDeposited works with DOIs
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